Frank Stella, who's spent a lifetime keeping the human form out of his work, admits that humanity has crept in anyway. "They feel quite comfortable here," he said.

Frank Stella, one of the world’s most famous artists, walked slowly into a large gallery festooned with big, colorful geometric abstractions he painted in the mid-1960s, at around age 30.

Artist Frank Stella in front of his painting titled "Firuzabad", a 1970 acrylic on canvas. Painter Frank Stella with his work that is hanging at the SFMOMA. Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle ...

Confined by early praise, Frank Stella found freedom in extravagance The artist, who died Saturday, was hailed in his 20s by an establishment fixated on abstraction and purity. He spent the rest ...

Frank Stella (born 1936) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who has played a pivotal role in the evolution of Minimalism, Post-Painterly Abstraction, and later, maximalism in the ...

It’s time for a Stella update and an eye-opening experience. What Frank Stella has been doing since his first retrospective in 1970 is spectacular.

In 1965, Frank Stella was given one of his first museum shows at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Fifty-five years later, the venerable artist is set to return to ...

Frank Stella, Towering Artist and Master of Reinvention, Dies at 87 He moved American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward cool minimalism. His explorations of color and form were endlessly ...

In 1972, Stella donated "Isfahan III" (1968) to the Museum of Solidarity in Chile. After a coup d'etat, the artwork disappeared for nearly 20 years, but its story is coming to light as the museum ...

Still active at 81, Stella is also known for his revolutionary approach to materials, utilizing items such as house and car paint, cast aluminum, fiberglass, and 3D-printing techniques.

My second thought was: “I wonder if he is nervous.” Nervous? I am projecting. Stella has made many creative departures in his long career. He is no stranger to disappointing those who have ...

FRANK STELLA HAS BEEN around a long time: a working artist in New York since 1958 and a part of the conversation, albeit in varying degrees, since the following year, when his sober “Black ...